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I would trade Pau for Love in a heart beat. I wouldn't be surprised if Minnesota moves him also as he has already said get better or trade me. Personally I would like to see LeMarcus Aldrige in a Laker uniform but that is never going to happen.

Originally Posted by Drinkey McDrinkerstein

Why aren't there more good role models for fat people who fall down a lot?

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I think all the Love trade talk is a beat up. He said the incriminating comments a while ago when obviously disgruntled. The fact is the team is improving and has made shrewd moves, has assets to trade if the choose and has played well under adversity.

And not forgetting Love has over 2 years left on his contract. The Wolves are not moving him any time soon.

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hey all. coming to Coachella for the first time, but I noticed this thread and wanted some help please.
After Coachella Weekend 1, I head off to Minneapolis and New York. So I plan to see a couple of games before the season finishes. So what is the best way to get tickets? Thoughts please. I have looked up all the normal sites, just really want to know my chances of getting tickets if I don't book them before I hit the US.
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by vogina

To those who have gone to a Laker home game, what do you suggest I do? In terms of: arrival time, early dinner (5-6ish) restaurant choices, and drinks.

I like to get to LA Live 90 min to 2 hrs before tip off (earlier is always better) and head to Yardhouse for happy hour. Best advice I can give you is that most of the restaurants are slammed when there's a Laker game so give yourself tons of time before tip off.

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Originally Posted by unit300021

I would trade Pau for Love in a heart beat. I wouldn't be surprised if Minnesota moves him also as he has already said get better or trade me. Personally I would like to see LeMarcus Aldrige in a Laker uniform but that is never going to happen.

If you're the Lakers, of course you would. But no chance this happens. Love is better and younger than Pau. I'm a Wolves fan so it may seem biased, but seriously that deal makes no sense.

Now- a deal that I predict could happen. Salaries, position, ages all similar. And I think both teams would be willing to part ways with their guys. What about Gasol for Amare Stoudamire?

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Originally Posted by miscorrections

How is any of that ironic? On this board I absolutely expect terrible people to call other people terrible.

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Originally Posted by stacheRides

I like to get to LA Live 90 min to 2 hrs before tip off (earlier is always better) and head to Yardhouse for happy hour. Best advice I can give you is that most of the restaurants are slammed when there's a Laker game so give yourself tons of time before tip off.

Enjoy the game

Thanks!

How much time should I give myself from the time I leave the Yard to getting into my seat before tip off (7:30)? Basically trying to savor every last drop of cheaper beer and food than inside Staples Center before actually heading inside.

7:00? 7:15? Earlier than that?

Originally Posted by fatbastard

Don't ever use Paul's name again in a posting. YOU GOT THAT YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER? Paul was making his bones in the business back when you were just cum in your mother's ear.

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Originally Posted by Drinkey McDrinkerstein

Why aren't there more good role models for fat people who fall down a lot?

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Originally Posted by beatz79

hey all. coming to Coachella for the first time, but I noticed this thread and wanted some help please.
After Coachella Weekend 1, I head off to Minneapolis and New York. So I plan to see a couple of games before the season finishes. So what is the best way to get tickets? Thoughts please. I have looked up all the normal sites, just really want to know my chances of getting tickets if I don't book them before I hit the US.
Thanks.

First, try the team websites to see what you can get at face value. If that doesn't work, team websites will generally have a venue where season ticket holders can resell individual game tickets; these will be marked up above face value, if the team and/or game is a good one. If that's too pricey, try stubhub.com (pretty much the same thing though), ebay, or craigslist.

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These last two games have been massively disappointing, but hopefully, with this day of rest they have before tomorrow's big game, they will come back, the team we watched all of December, and destroy the Lakers.

(no offense to you suffering Lakers fans out there... ok, maybe a little.)

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The Lakers are a fucking disgrace this year. I feel like I was the only guy in Lakerland that thought trading for Howard was a terrible idea and I'm sorry to say I was absolutely right. What an overrated piece of shit. If he played with same effort that Jordan Hill plays with we'd have at least another five wins. Kobe, Ron, Nash and Jordan Hill are the only players who seem like they're even trying. Pau is just a shell of a man these days. He should just retire and coach a WNBA team - take his place among all the other seven foot women. I will be amazed if we make the playoffs. Oh well, at least all my football teams are fucking awesome this year. Guess a man can't be too greedy.

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So you're not happy with Howard's 17 points and 12 rebounds? You mean you'd rather have Bynum who has yet to play a game this season?

Lakers have a shitty coach and Pau Gasol is the reason they're sucking along with Nash's inability to guard and one of the worst benches in the league. They really need to trade Gasol for a more consistent power foward

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I went to the Jan. 1st game against the 76ers.

The stadium booed Pao. I sat close to the wood and heard some funny shit. Felt bad for the guy but he either appears to play like he doesn't give a shit or it's just that he is a giant and when he moves it looks like a snail compared to average sized folks. Either way. The stadiums consensus was -- he has to go!

Originally Posted by fatbastard

Don't ever use Paul's name again in a posting. YOU GOT THAT YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER? Paul was making his bones in the business back when you were just cum in your mother's ear.

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Originally Posted by theklein25

So you're not happy with Howard's 17 points and 12 rebounds? You mean you'd rather have Bynum who has yet to play a game this season?

Lakers have a shitty coach and Pau Gasol is the reason they're sucking along with Nash's inability to guard and one of the worst benches in the league. They really need to trade Gasol for a more consistent power foward

Bynum was healthy enough when we traded him. He hurt his knee bowling. In Philadelphia. Maybe he would have gone bowling in LA and the same thing would have happened, but I know one thing with absolute certainty: you could roll him out to the free-throw line in a wheel chair and he'd hit twice as many 1s as Howard.

To your second point, who would possibly want Pau and his bloated contract on their books? If we wanted to move him we should have done it two seasons ago before his nuts got clipped.

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Originally Posted by theklein25

Lakers have a shitty coach and Pau Gasol is the reason they're sucking along with Nash's inability to guard and one of the worst benches in the league. They really need to trade Gasol for a more consistent power foward

I would have swore it was their defense and free throw shooting is why they lost. They hit free throws and they have about 10 more wins and we are having a different conversation.

Originally Posted by Drinkey McDrinkerstein

Why aren't there more good role models for fat people who fall down a lot?

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I would have swore it was their defense and free throw shooting is why they lost. They hit free throws and they have about 10 more wins and we are having a different conversation.

It's mostly Nash's and Gasol's defense along with their bench's defense that's killing them. I don't see Kobe and World Peace being the blame, and Howard is still plugging up the paint. I know Howard is not 100%. Clippers FT% is nearly the same as the Lakers and they're 10 games ahead so the what ifs don't really matter. They're a bad team right now there's not much to say except that another coaching change is necessary and even if you get rid of Gasol for a bunch of role players and draft players it'll be worth it, even if you have to give up MWP too

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The story that never went away last year is back .. like a zombie. Turns out Dwight Howard to the Nets was not dead, just dormant.

By all accounts, some of which are more alarming than others, things are not going well in Los Angeles.

But whatever the degree of discord or disharmony that exists in the Lakers locker room, there are some fairly simple facts to consider:

The Lakers are multiple games under .500, in 11th place in the Western Conference and in real danger of missing the playoffs. That was the case before their 112-105 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night, and they only dug themselves a deeper hole.
The Lakers are “old as sh-t” as Kobe Bryant pout it a few days back, and they surrendered two future first-round picks in the deal to acquire Steve Nash. Pau Gasol has been benched more than he has been used in fourth quarters since Mike D’Antoni took over, and even Bryant’s highest point production level in six years is not making things better.
Howard is going to be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season, and there is a genuine chance the Lakers could lose him with nothing in return (Dallas and Atlanta will have max room) is he decides to bolt in July. If the Lakers have a strong feeling in mid-February that Howard is unhappy and has one foot out the door, they will have no choice but to move him.

Those, folks, are the plain and simple facts.

But then we also have the matters which are open to debate and dispute — such as how much internal discord there is in the Lakers’ locker room. In a report in Monday’s editions of the New York Daily News, Stefan Bondy paints a picture of a team in total disarray. An excerpt:

”A league source told the Daily News that the Lakers stars got into a heated exchange following a New Year’s Day loss to the 76ers, and Bryant went for a low blow – referencing and agreeing with Shaquille O’Neal’s criticisms of Howard being soft. Howard was restrained from going at his teammate, according to the source, and there have been rumblings from the center’s camp that he’s been unhappy with Bryant since earlier in the season. Three days after the altercation, following a disheartening loss to the Clippers, Howard complained about the lack of chemistry on the Lakers. It was a comment seemingly directed at Bryant, who is averaging a league-high 22 shots despite playing with three potential Hall of Famers. “Look at the difference between our team and (the Clippers),” Howard said. “They just play together. They share the ball. Everybody’s excited when something happens. “(Chemistry) is something we have to do to get better,” Howard told reporters in L.A. “We have to play like we like each other. Even if we don’t want to be friends off the court, whatever that may be, when we step in between the lines or we step in the locker room or the gym, we have to respect each other and what we bring to the table.”

No, that does not sound like a happy camper.

Which leads us to the Nets, who have gone 5-1 since P.J. Carlesimo took over and would be content to let him keep the job for the remainder of the season if Phil Jackson tells them he is uninterested or would prefer to wait. Both Jackson and Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov have been flying waaaay under the radar over the past week since it became known that Jackson was the Nets’ one and only choice, but rest assured there is some back-channeling going on.

As columnist Charley Rosen has pointed out, the Nets’ current personnel would be a fit for Jackson’s triangle offense if a power forward could be found who can step out to 17 feet and knock down a jumper. (Kris Humphries does not have that in his repertoire.) But Humphries and Brook Lopez both become trade-eligible on Jan. 15, and the Nets would surely be willing to include either of them in a trade with the Lakers if it would bring back Howard.

Brooklyn would have to provide the Lakers with more than just Lopez or Humphries in a trade of that magnitude — but they actually have three nice young pieces (Mirza Teletovic, Tyshawn Taylor and MarShon Brooks) that would sweeten the pot, give the Lakers a stretch 4 and/or a point guard of the future and bring the total salaries into line.

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It's quite a stretch to go from "this is a trade that might make sense for both teams" to "the teams are talking trade". He says "Turns out Dwight Howard to the Nets was not dead, just dormant" but then only talks about why it would make sense. Propaganda even a 5th grader could see past.

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Originally Posted by TomAz

It's quite a stretch to go from "this is a trade that might make sense for both teams" to "the teams are talking trade". He says "Turns out Dwight Howard to the Nets was not dead, just dormant" but then only talks about why it would make sense. Propaganda even a 5th grader could see past.

Totally, though it wouldn't surprise me if a conversation between the teams really does happen, especially if the Lakers continue to struggle and Dwight continues to complain.